1 Kings 12:11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder! My father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.'
Exodus 1:13-14
They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves.
Exodus 5:5-9
Pharaoh added: Look how many people there are in the land! Do you want them to quit working?
Exodus 5:18
Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
1 Samuel 8:18
You will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen for yourselves. Jehovah will not answer you when that day comes.
1 Kings 12:14
He gave them the answer suggested by the young advisors. He said: My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder! My father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
2 Chronicles 16:10
Asa was so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
Jeremiah 27:11
If a nation surrender to the king of Babylon and serve him I will let it stay in its own land. People will farm the land and live on it, says Jehovah.'
Jeremiah 28:13-14
Go and tell Hananiah: 'Jehovah has said, You may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.
Ezekiel 2:6
Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people.
Revelation 9:3-10
Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth. Power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.